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- Title
Psychological Distress, Sources of Stress and Coping Strategy in High School Students.
- Authors
Hau Jett Lin; Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri
- Abstract
Background: Excessive stress during the teen years can have a harmful impact upon both physical and mental health later in life. Pre-university students have to face various challenges in relationships, personal images and environments besides the customary academic and co-curricular activities tolls. Nevertheless, adolescents' stress is often neglected. It is of paramount importance to identify the factors associated with youngsters' stress in order to design specific and effective interventions. Objective: This study reported the prevalence of psychological distress, Stressors and coping strategies among high school students and contributing factors to psychological distress of the students. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the high school students in Melaka. Purposive sampling was adopted and data were collected near examination period. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Secondary School Stressor Questionnaire (3SQ) and Brief COPE inventory were used to measure psychological stress, Stressors and coping strategies respectively. Statistical analyses were done by performing independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis test, Mann Whitney U test, Pearson correlation and logistic regression. Result: Approximately 47.6% of the respondents had psychological distress with major Stressors being academic related. Negative coping methods were commonly used by distressed respondents. Conclusion: The prevalence of psychological distress among high school students in Melaka was high. More attention should be directed by parent, schools and teachers to high school students especially around examination period. Training the students to cope positively might improve their psychological health.
- Subjects
MALAYSIA; ACADEMIC achievement; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; ANALYSIS of variance; STATISTICAL correlation; PSYCHOLOGY of high school students; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; T-test (Statistics); U-statistics; LOGISTIC regression analysis; JUDGMENT sampling; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software
- Publication
International Medical Journal, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 6, p672
- ISSN
1341-2051
- Publication type
Article